I know very little about how to package .debs, but I will say
installing PLT Scheme from source is very easy. Just grab the source
from svn, then:
cd src
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/plt
make
make install
This will install everything into the directory /usr/local/plt
I've done this on many Linux boxes without a problem. If the
self-installing script isn't working you might want to try it.
N.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Curt Ferguson <curtferguson at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is any possibility of getting PLT scheme versions
> made available in the downloads section of the PLT website as *.deb
> packages for people like me who use apt-get installers and such. OS's
> such as Ubuntu use these packages and the number of people using them is
> growing every day. Ubuntu 7.10 has a DrScheme package available in the
> ubuntu repositories, but it is version 360. The new release of ubuntu
> coming out in April has the 372 package available, which is good,
> because for some reason the self-installing script for ubuntu isn't
> working for me and I'd like to use 372. I don't know how much extra
> work it would take to do this (If I fully groked the *.deb package
> process I'd make one myself.) But I think it'd be worthwhile.
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